Tag: Peggy Whitson

STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet during a fit check rehearsal with their Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Alexander Vysotsky A veteran Russian cosmonaut, a rookie French flight engineer and a record-setting NASA astronaut making her third trip to the…

The Soyuz booster that will send the International Space Station’s next three residents into orbit later this week rolled out of an integration hangar early Monday and rode a railroad car to its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The rocket will lift off at 2020 GMT (3:20 p.m. EST) Thursday from Baikonur,…